Carving the landscape

Description:

Gully erosion dissects a large sediment fan emerging from the High Atlas into the Souss Basin, Morocco. Opposite older gully systems at the left wadi bank near La Glalcha village, a new gully system at the right wadi bank has developed during heavy rainfalls in February 2010, cutting 5 m deep into recent infillings of an older system which can still be traced by the dried weed cover: The land-levelling measures, intended to regain badland for a tomato plantation, have only resulted in reactivation of an abating sediment source.

Credit:

Irene Marzolff , Dep. of Physical Geography, Goethe University , Frankfurt am Main - Germany

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When:

Taken on September 27, 2010 and submitted on March 8, 2011

Sections:

• Geomorphology (209 images)

Categories:

• Field (1034 images)

Camera:

Panasonic

Model:

Lumix GF1 with Lumix G 1.7/20 mm